• Hugo Chavez's body is to be permanently displayed in a special tomb
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[quote=nbc]Hugo Chavez's body will be permanently displayed in a special tomb, Venezuela's Vice President, Nicolas Maduro, announced Thursday on state television.[/quote] [url]http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/07/17226935-maduro-chavez-body-to-be-permanently-displayed?lite[/url] [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-21708668[/url] Lenin is gonna be pissed
Why do dictators insist on this bullshit
[QUOTE=Elecbullet;39836576]Why do dictators insist on this bullshit[/QUOTE] Because they're egotistical as fuck and can't stand being dead and forgotten [editline]7th March 2013[/editline] I mean it seems pretty simple given the fact that they're dictators
Okay, this should clear the confusion on whether he was a good guy or not.
There should be a museum of dead dictators
He wasn't a dictator. Oh wait I forgot dictator now means politicians with large support. [url]http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/hugo-chavez-wasnt-a-dictator-but-he-crushed-democracy/article9336246/[/url]
Like a true socialist :C *sneeef*
[QUOTE=laserguided;39836669]He wasn't a dictator. [editline]7th March 2013[/editline] Oh wait I forgot dictator now means politicians with large support.[/QUOTE] lmao, hitler was a dictator, you think a dictator would still have power without that large support? dictator = 1 leader and that's it. Leader being the "Decisions guy". [url]http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dictator[/url] a. a ruler who is not effectively restricted by a constitution, laws, recognized opposition, etc. If he doesn't have any restrictions then yeah. He's a dictator. [editline]7th March 2013[/editline] if lets say, Romney, or Obama had no constitution, laws, or literally anything stopping him from a decision, then they'd be a dictator.
[QUOTE=J!NX;39836791]lmao, hitler was a dictator, you think a dictator would still have power without that large support? dictator = 1 leader and that's it. Leader being the "Decisions guy". [URL]http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dictator[/URL] a. a ruler who is not effectively restricted by a constitution, laws, recognized opposition, etc. If he doesn't have any restrictions then yeah. He's a dictator. [editline]7th March 2013[/editline] if lets say, Romney, or Obama had no constitution, laws, or literally anything stopping him from a decision, then they'd be a dictator.[/QUOTE] So Obama is a dictator? [sp] /sarcasm [/sp]
[QUOTE=Rob Markia;39836870]So Obama is a dictator? [sp] /sarcasm [/sp][/QUOTE] Obongo is a commie dictator who eats babies and walks on ceilings and speaks demonic
How was he a dictator? [url]http://www.theglobeandmail.com/community/inside-the-globe/public-editor-should-we-describe-hugo-chavez-as-a-dictator/article9365941/[/url] [url]http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/hugo-chavez-wasnt-a-dictator-but-he-crushed-democracy/article9336246/[/url] Read those.
Lenin lead a revolution and a civil war that would end up affecting every man on earth through WWII and the Cold War... If it wasn't for the fear of Communism Lenin caused, many western nation's social policies would be far worse. I'm not so sure about Chavez's accomplishments on the other hand.
If you're not american, you can go to the North Korea so you can see Kim Jeong Il's dead body in the glass. :D
Dictator? Yea, okay. I'll just leave this here: [url]http://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/19s6mu/effort_post_busting_some_myths_about_chavez_and/[/url]
[QUOTE=Elecbullet;39836576]Why do dictators insist on this bullshit[/QUOTE] Interestingly, Lenin never wanted a cult of worship around him. He wanted to lead the revolution, and when he died, his successor (he probably wanted Trotsky) would take his place and everyone would just respect Lenin for having 'saved' Russia. I presume his body was preserved soon after death, but I believe it was done more so the people would begin to worship Lenin and see him as almost a God.
i smell a futurama episode in reality... instead of presidents heads all live and shit, it be the dictators...
[QUOTE=Jamsponge;39840146]Interestingly, Lenin never wanted a cult of worship around him. He wanted to lead the revolution, and when he died, his successor (he probably wanted Trotsky) would take his place and everyone would just respect Lenin for having 'saved' Russia. I presume his body was preserved soon after death, but I believe it was done more so the people would begin to worship Lenin and see him as almost a God.[/QUOTE] it's probably done for a similar reason to why us americans idolize george washington. the ussr wanted to start to create an identity and culture that wasn't based around the old russian empire, so lenin was turned into a sort of godlike figure for the good soviets to look up to. it helps to separate and celebrate the new nation, even though it has very little in the way of history and heroes of its own yet.
Calm down, dictator is the guy whose political views are not liberal, it's obvious. Doesn't have anything to do with how he was elected, or came into power or something like that. As if democratically elected presidents can't be dicks. Besides, none of the sources state that that was personal wish of Chavez before he died, and I somehow doubt that he can "insist" on anything now.
[QUOTE=Kondor58;39836645]There should be a museum of dead dictators[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://theinfosphere.org/images/thumb/0/05/Hall_of_Presidents.jpg/250px-Hall_of_Presidents.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=Jamsponge;39840146]Interestingly, Lenin never wanted a cult of worship around him. He wanted to lead the revolution, and when he died, his successor (he probably wanted Trotsky) would take his place and everyone would just respect Lenin for having 'saved' Russia. I presume his body was preserved soon after death, but I believe it was done more so the people would begin to worship Lenin and see him as almost a God.[/QUOTE] Lenin's body was preserved so that the leaders of the USSR would have a figure they could point to, a person everyone could rally behind, other than Stalin et. al.. It wasn't Lenin's choice, it was his successors. Stalin was tapping into a religious metaphor with the preservation; most Russian Orthodox believers were taught that the body of saints don't rot or decompose, thus establishing Lenin as a figurehead. He was a symbol that caused many people to transfer their religious faith into faith in the Party.
[QUOTE=Elecbullet;39836576]Why do dictators insist on this bullshit[/QUOTE] he cant insist hes dead
lenin never actually wanted that crap, i bet chavez didn't either
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